Darrell John Steffensmeier (born 1942) is an American criminologist and Liberal Arts Research Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Pennsylvania State University.
[1] Steffensmeier joined the faculty of Pennsylvania State University in 1976, and was appointed Liberal Arts Research Professor there in 2015.
[2] Broadly speaking, Steffensmeier's research focuses on the relationship between societal categories, such as race, sex, age, and class, and crime.
[3][4] For example, he has published multiple studies examining gender differences in white-collar crime.
He is a fellow of the American Society of Criminology and past president of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime.